To:G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written July 4, 1916Published:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49.

      Sent from Zurich to Hertenstein.

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      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Iwas ever so glad to get your plan of the
collection.[1]You shouldn’t grudge the 2,000 frs., really (it will
bring in some money, and the money will beours, not the
kulaks’). It’s not worth quarreling and upsetting ourselves over such
perfectly lousy people. These people will be wiser after the lesson, I
assure you.

Iquite agree with you that Bukharin (andYuri) shouldformallybe asked to immediately give a discussion article on
self-determination. We shall publish it. Will you write to them? I’m so
furious now with Bukharin that I cannot write. Write at once. To Bukharin
in addition: about Höglund and the Norwegian strike.

Butwe must fix the size asstrictlyas possible bothfor
ourselvesand for others. Essential!!

Iquite agree also that Radek’s theses should go in.

Ishould like to write about self-determination—on Junius—and about
defeatism (+“imperialism and opportunism”+on the Chkheidze Duma group).

Wemust get Varin’s article immediately. Ought we not get him to write
another one about Ireland? I think we should!

GeorgeandTinsky(the latter provisionally) should be
commissioned to write something: we must encourage the youth.

OntheInternationalepreferably 3–4 short articles with a
briefintroductionfrom the
editors.[2]

Let’smake exact arrangements as to length.

Bestregards!Lenin

[1]Thisrefers toSbornik Sotsial-Demokrata.

Yuri—G. L. Pyatakov—wrote an article “The Proletariat and
the Right of Nations to Self-Determination in the Era of Finance Capital”,
but owing to its erroneous theses it was not published in the collection.

TheNorwegian strike, which started on June 6, 1016, was dealt
with in Arvid Hansen’s article “Certain Features of the Contemporary
Labour Movement in Norway” published in No. 2 ofSbornik
Sotsial-Demokrata.

Inthis letter Lenin refers to his articles “The Discussion on
Self-Determination Summed Up” and “The Junius Pamphlet”, which were
subsequently included in No. 1 ofSbornik, and the articles
“Imperialism and the Split in Socialism” and “The Chkheidze Faction and
Its Role” published in No. 2.

Amongthe articles received by the editors for No. 3 ofSbornikand listed on the cover of No. 2 was the article “What Is
Happening Among the Troops” by Strannik (Varin).

[2]Thisrefers to articles forSbornik Sotsial-Demokrataconcerning the activities of theInternationalegroup in
Germany. No. 2 ofSbornikcarried two articles on this subject:
“Illegal Newspapers of the German Left Opposition” and “Current Events
of the Revolutionary Struggle in Germany”.